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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-phhw-3wc9-8q75)
high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434400
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The minion's restartcheck is vulnerable to
command injection via a crafted process name. This allows for a local privilege escalation by any user
able to create a files on the minion in a non-blacklisted directory. (CVE-2020-28243)
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 434400
Version: Revision 1.2
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 8/19/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.9
Percentile: 57.12
Vendor
Vendor Severity: High
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.4
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28243
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-28243